FSML: Winterization of Faculty and Student Residences at Mountain Lake Biological Station

山湖生物站(MLBS)由弗吉尼亚大学(UVA)于1929年建立，最初是一个位于阿巴拉契亚山脉南部的内陆野外研究和教学站。在过去的25年里，空间站的研究计划发展了以野外为基础的种群研究的重点，重点是进化论、生态遗传学、种群和群落生态学、行为生理学和保护。MLBS是一个全方位服务的住宅设施，提供现代野战站所期望的全方位的科学、教学和通信支持。该空间站平均每年有近7000个用户日。典型的用户通常是与家人在一起，一次居住几周到三个月。夏季招生人数最高可达100人，从幼儿到高中生，从课程和研究本科生，到杰出的研究人员。社区的所有成员每天都在一起工作、吃饭和生活，将研究和指导整合在一起，真正意义上是杰斐逊式的“学术村”。MLBS运营收到了许多春季和秋季的使用请求，由于没有为研究人员、家庭和各种规模的访问团提供越冬住房而无法满足这些需求。该大学在12个月工作人员方面的新投资和扩大的服务将提供许多必要的基础设施，使多边基金能够提供全年服务。限制空间站提供非夏季服务能力的一个关键因素是缺乏过冬的住房。这项奖励的住房改善将有助于外地站的研究和教学任务。拟议的工作将改善多民族玻利维亚国的有形基础设施，使其能够在时间和目标方面扩大其任务。小组使用空间将允许MLBS开展新的外展计划，并为来访的班级和团体提供服务。越冬和改善的研究人员空间将使其能够吸引和留住更多不同的PI。

Mountain Lake Biological Station (MLBS) was founded in 1929 by the University of Virginia (UVA) as an inland field station for research and teaching in the Southern Appalachians. In the last quarter century the station's research program has developed a focus in field based population studies with emphases in evolution, ecological genetics, population and community ecology, behavioral physiology, and conservation. MLBS is a full service residential facility that offers the full range of scientific, instructional, and communications support expected at a modern field station. The station averages near 7,000 user days per year. Typical users are in residence, often with families, for a few weeks up to three months at a time. Summer-season capacity tops out at 100 residents ranging from small children to high school students to course and research undergraduates, to distinguished research faculty. All members of the community work, eat, and live together everyday, integrating research and mentorship in the truest sense of a Jeffersonian "academical village". MLBS operates receives many usage requests for the spring and fall that cannot be accommodated due to the absence of winterized housing for researchers, families and visiting groups of all sizes. New investments by the University in 12-month staff and expanded services will provide much of the infrastructure necessary to allow MLBS to provide year-round service. A critical factor still limiting the station's ability to provide non-summer services is a lack of winterized housing. Housing improvements from this award will contribute to both the research and instructional mission of the field station. The proposed work will improve the physical infrastructure of MLBS allowing it to broaden its mission in both time and target. Group use space will allow MLBS to pursue new outreach programs and serve visiting classes and groups. Winterized and improved researcher space will enable it to attract and retain more and more diverse PIs.